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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]there are already adultery laws they just need to be enforced[/quote] Waste of time and resources. You can be a good person and a terrible spouse. Life is shades of gray.[/quote] Nah, we have credit scores because being financially irresponsible is a liability. Being sexually irresponsible should be considered the same. Being morally questionable is a liability, and a lot of people would probably argue that a terrible spouse is a terrible person. How you treat the people you claim to love says a LOT about who you choose to be and how you choose to move in the world. [/quote] In theory, I kind of agree with this; in practice it just doesn’t work. For example, I could absolutely get behind a rule that considered infidelity as a factor in the property distribution in a divorce, in theory. In practice, however, courts and judges are simply not capable of engaging in the high-resolution evaluation of a relationship, in terms of who did what to whom, to evaluate that issue in a principled way, certainly not when we’re talking about adjusting, in most cases, the distribution of a relatively small amount of assets. The cheating spouse in this scenario would raise a host of arguments about neglect, provocation, etc., no way to parse through it. Similarly, legacy statutes that criminalize e.g. adultery applied to a radically different social context, and just wouldn’t make sense today. The appropriate sanctions for cheating are reputational and social, and sadly we’re all so atomized these days, so conditioned to the idea that people should follow their bliss and that criticizing anyone’s sexual behavior is oppressive full stop, even this has broken down. I think things have moved too far in this direction for the taste of most, but no real way back. The social climate has changed too much. [/quote]
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